Thanks for the video and references! The video really shows the value
of marking menu. An earlier conparison of pie vs linear menu was
made, that you might know about, Kaleem, and I post it as reference
purposes.
CALLAHAN J., HOPKINS D., WEISER M., SHNEIDERMAN B. (1988). « An
empirical comparison
Dave Talbot discussed Gord Kurtenbach's work at Alias (now Autodesk)
in his earlier post --
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34967#34978 -- which led to
Gord's PhD thesis on The Design and Evaluation of Marking Menus
:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~gordo/papers/thesis.pdf.
Bill Buxton was Alias
Hi Krystal,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFwgPuEdSkfeature=related
It seems Jeff Han use (popup) list menu as well as pie menu at the
same time, and his method triggering the pie menu looks quite
interesting.
Thanks,
-- Jarod
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http://designforuse.blogspot.com/
Hello everyone, I'm new to IxDA, glad to be part of this. I wanted to share
this interesting article:
http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/pie-in-the-sky/
What are your thoughts?
- Mike
avisena.com
mikecuesta.com
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
Hi Mike,
Lateral movement is easier, shorter is quicker. The pie chart has a larger
area in terms of direction of travel i.e. there is more tolerance. The pie is
smaller but its nearer. See Fitt's Law for a mathematical view.
Ivor Tillier
Senior Web Producer
-Original Message-
I'm glad seeing interests for pie menus. They have some limitations
(ie.: screen space and number of elements) but present major
advantages offer linear menus. One I like is the possibility to use
marks for selection instead of pointing. Gordon Kurtembach made a
Ph.D. thesis on the subject,
For mac, the equivalent would be Trampoline:
http://www.old-jewel.com/trampoline/
Sweet — I already love it! Thanks for the tip.
I've used QuickSilver for at least a year now, but Trampoline is a
nice alternative for those core apps I open all the time. (Doesn't
work so well for folders,
I love radial / orbital menus which are related to pie. Especially when
dealing with deeply nested hierarchies as on windows/web, it's SOOO easy to
accidently mouse off a deeply nested menu, and then have to retraverse it,
to miss it again!
Even back in 2005 I had one on my site (still up). It's
http://www.troyworks.com/menu.html
Sorry, it's a bit hard for me to use it after some trying. there's
maybe some reasons
1. adapt to the normal menu design patterns
2. it's easier to read the in line mode instead of circle mode, which
may have big influnce on daily point/action work
But if
